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It’s 2020 and you get home from work one evening to discover an angry group of neighbors crowded at your apartment door. Inside, your landlady and a team of firemen are attempting to clear up a flood that’s spread throughout the kitchen, bathroom and living room. It’s even run through to your neighbor downstairs.
What happened? Disaster! Your IoT water management software malfunctioned that morning and turned on all the water sources in your apartment at full blast — the shower, the sinks, even your washing machine. Within a few hours they’d flooded the flat, causing thousands of dollars’ worth of damage.
Legally, who’s to blame? Is it you? Did you forgot to install the latest update to your water management software? Is it the plumbing company that connected your faucets to the Internet? Did they make a false connection somewhere? Or is it the software developer, who accidentally worked a bug into the program which meant the flood was likely to happen to someone somewhere?
Read the complete article at The Wild West of IoT Legislation